tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post2559122017492543601..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Teaching Resumes...Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-55669747442543568112017-09-03T11:30:12.143-07:002017-09-03T11:30:12.143-07:00This guy is gunning for your job, Dale!
https://w...This guy is gunning for your job, Dale!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhPUxmrQqS0<br />------------<br />Jordan Peterson - We Need To Stop Postmodernism Now!<br />====<br /><br />I can't help but be reminded of Georgie Babbitt<br />( https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2014/02/publish-or-cherish.html )<br /><br />Peterson has become a YouTube celebrity partly through a self-help<br />course of "Self Authoring" designed to get college kids' heads<br />screwed on straight, which means, yes, seeing through the lies<br />of their (other) Neo-Marxist professors (by reading Solzhenitsyn's<br />_The Gulag Archipelago_) and getting used to the idea that<br />the only path to fulfillment (for ordinary, uncreative folks)<br />is traditional marriage and family. He points out that creativity<br />is handed out according to the "Pareto distribution", with the vast<br />bulk of the population being stuck at the "useless" end of the curve.<br />So have kids and raise them -- that's probably all the good<br />you can do for the world.<br />Jordan Peterson on Wealth Concentration & Normal vs Pareto Distributions<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsRLVZTYpGo<br />Then there's Price's Law -- the principle that says that the square root of the<br />number of producers create 50% of the product<br />Jordan Peterson - Inequality of Wealth and Productivity<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0PCDEJWek<br /><br />Peterson's also big on IQ which, he says<br />(along with the "Conscientiousness" dimension of the Big Five<br />personality scale) is the major predictor of success in life.<br />Peterson's own IQ is (or was, in his salad days) upwards of<br />150, so he's cool. And he thinks Donald Trump must have **something**<br />on the ball. ;-><br />Jordan Peterson Reveals His IQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZV8Juna40<br />Jordan Peterson on Trump's Intelligence, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQyroQLr1Q<br /><br />He tries to recoup traditional religion for the thinking person,<br />via the "deep truths" of Jungian archetypes, or something.<br />Cf.<br />Jordan Peterson on "Why Bashing Religion Doesn't Make You Smart"<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Goxcntqgos<br />(Heads up, P.Z. Myers, you're just not being very smart.<br />https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/09/03/ask-a-stupid-question-get-a-stupid-answer/ )<br /><br />One reason Peterson is deeply suspicious of "Social Justice Warriors"<br />(and "Neo-Marxists") is that he believes, along with Nietzsche, that<br />well-off people who want to overthrow the social system that handed<br />them their privilege are most likely motivated by a kind of nihilistic<br />rage against the people who are **better** off than they are,<br />and that their purported empathy and concern for the downtrodden<br />doesn't bear close examination. What Nietzsche called _ressentiment_.<br />(cf. "Another Country"<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfjuiLozt0g<br />;-> ).<br /><br />Peterson is big on the Big Five dimensions of personality, and<br />some of his YouTube videos are devoted to explaining their significance.<br />A decade and a half ago, I took an on-line version of a "Big Five"<br />personality test, something called the IPIP-NEO. One of the "facets"<br />of the Openness to Experience "domain" was something called<br />"Liberalism", on which I scored at the 96th percentile. The description<br />read "Psychological liberalism refers to a readiness to challenge<br />authority, convention, and traditional values. In its most extreme<br />form, psychological liberalism can even represent outright hostility<br />toward rules, sympathy for law-breakers, and love of ambiguity,<br />chaos, and disorder." Or "ressentiment"?<br /><br />Anyway, Peterson's YouTube guru mojo is in the ascendant, at the<br />moment. Move over, Stefan Molyneux! He has a kind of Ayn Randian,<br />suck it up, soldier!, **hoist** those bootstraps! ambience.<br />A bit tightly wound and, I dunno, **angry** at times. Together with<br />that plaintive voice and Canadian accent. Some folks love him.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-35329875008546669272017-09-01T10:08:38.801-07:002017-09-01T10:08:38.801-07:00> Google is SJW cesspool
Or not?
https://free...<br />> Google is SJW cesspool<br /><br />Or not?<br /><br />https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/31/as-cockroaches-scurry-for-the-darkness-so-do-the-nazis/<br />---------------<br />If you’re wondering why American companies are so reluctant to block online hatred,<br />one answer is that American tech workers have a high proportion of haters.<br /><br />> [ https://slate.com/technology/2017/08/the-alt-right-wants-to-build-its-own-internet.html ]<br />> The early iterations of whatever Gab’s movement produces may very well<br />> be funded by its builders, many of whom purportedly have high-paying jobs<br />> in Silicon Valley. Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the Daily Stormer, told<br />> Mother Jones in March that the majority of his site’s traffic comes from<br />> Santa Clara County, in the heart of Silicon Valley. “The average alt-right-ist,”<br />> the white supremacist Richard Spencer told the magazine, “is probably a<br />> 28-year-old tech-savvy guy working in IT.”<br /><br />But why? Why would American computer programmers drift towards Naziism? I think<br />there’s an answer to that, too. They’re saturated in triumphal capitalism,<br />and in particular, Libertarianism, which is the gateway drug to full-blown greed,<br />which they’ve branded as “liberty”.<br /><br />> Since Google fired Damore and Gab lost its spot in the Google app store,<br />> the effort to found an alt-right internet has taken on a new urgency. . .<br />><br />> In the past two weeks, a handful of far-right video bloggers have jumped<br />> onboard to promote the nascent movement, including Styxhexenhammer666,<br />> a popular libertarian video blogger, whose two videos about the effort<br />> have notched almost 70,000 views. Others have posted “call to action” videos,<br />> rallying technologists to join the movement to build “new ‘free speech’<br />> platforms,” which have also attracted thousands of viewers. While these<br />> might not read as huge numbers, they suggest a movement with a groundswell<br />> of grassroots support.<br /><br />They don’t care about race or gender. That usually means they don’t care about<br />the inequities constructed around race and gender, because they’re mostly<br />white men who have got theirs already. They also claim to not believe in ideology,<br />even to be ideology-free, while not noticing that they’re soaking in a<br />particularly ugly ideology.<br />====<br /><br /><br />via<br />https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/tagged/the-crackpot-offer-indeed<br />---------------<br />you know that horrible anti-SJW manifesto out of Google?<br /><br />yeah, turns out it was largely cribbed from a Scott Alexander post<br />[ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-mostly-not-due-to-offensive-attitudes/ ]<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />gosh, how could anyone think lesswrong had anything to do with neoreaction<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />oh, and here’s<br />[ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6rv2ib/did_the_ssc_post_on_gender_imbalances_and/dl84whf/ ]<br />scott alexander thanking him for not naming him in the manifesto, but suggesting:<br /><br />> And if you’re reading this - sorry, huge respect for what you’re trying,<br />> but it’s pretty doomed. The best hope is a Fabian strategy of making sure<br />> enough there’s enough of an underground of people who know what’s up that<br />> they can quietly self-sort, form bubbles of liveability, and curb the worst<br />> excesses without forming a clear target for anybody. If you actually go riding<br />> in on a white horse waving a paper marked “ANTI-DIVERSITY MANIFESTO”, you’re<br />> just providing justification for the next round of purges.<br /><br />i.e. literally form a misogynist underground to evade HR.<br /><br />how could anyone assume a self-declared liberal like scott was any sort of reactionary<br />====<br /><br /><br />Well, the code word for "right-leaning liberal" these days seems to<br />be "classical" liberal. Like Coke Classic.<br /><br />YMMV. :-0<br /><br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-61300187672157900492017-09-01T10:04:19.915-07:002017-09-01T10:04:19.915-07:00> Google Memo: Aftermath
> Jordan Peterson a...> Google Memo: Aftermath<br />> Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux<br /><br />This is the same Jordan Peterson who was up in arms a few days ago about<br />having his Google accounts (both YouTube and Gmail) abruptly deactivated,<br />with (he says) no clear explanation. Private communication with Google<br />failed to get his accounts reinstated, so he complained publicly, and shortly<br />thereafter his accounts were turned back on (also with no explanation).<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKJS8gUyvk<br />---------------------<br />Jordan B Peterson - Google is SJW cesspool<br />====<br /><br />In ironic contrast to his remarks about "repairing" universities with<br />the help of AI-driven course evaluations to warn students away from<br />"Neo-Marxist cults", he says here (4:22/9:04):<br /><br />> We've turned our communications over to very large systems, or<br />> very large systems have emerged to mediate our communication, right --<br />> I mean, there's lots of benefit to it, so we don't want to get too<br />> cynical about it. But, we're blind with regards to the policies that<br />> regulate the actions, the regulatory actions, of these large<br />> organizations. And that's really a bad thing. And something else<br />> is even more ominous -- really ominous, you know. It's highly<br />> probably that we're going to build political algorithms into our<br />> artificial intelligence. And this sort of thing will be regulated<br />> by machines that no one understands. And that's a really bad idea.<br />> And that's a really likely possibility.<br /><br />I have to admit that I don't think it's a good thing that Google<br />has so much arbitrary power (though they do seem to be sensitive to<br />the threat of bad publicity -- especially if it's going to upset<br />major advertisers).<br /><br />They've been wielding that power in more subtle ways as well, according<br />to the New York Times:<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/google-influence-think-tanks.html<br />---------------------<br />Google’s Disturbing Influence Over Think Tanks<br />By JONATHAN TAPLIN<br />AUG. 30, 2017<br />====<br /><br />I also have to admit I've watched a few of Peterson's videos and enjoyed them,<br />though it's obvious enough that he has what you might call a "sophisticated"<br />right-leaning agenda. It would be interesting to put Peterson and<br />Robert Sapolsky on the same stage and see what happens. (Or even better, Peterson<br />and Christopher Hitchens, but alas that's no longer possible.)jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-31271205739221772262017-08-31T20:09:37.165-07:002017-08-31T20:09:37.165-07:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdfVA5JURE
> T...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdfVA5JURE<br />> Teaching Resumes...<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdfVA5JURE<br />-----------------<br />Google Memo: Aftermath<br />Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux<br />Published on Aug 14, 2017<br /><br />24:10/1:18:08<br /><br />Jordan Peterson: OK, so by the 1960s Marxism was pretty much discredited,<br />certainly by the mid-70s when Solzhenitsyn wrote _The Gulag Archipelago_,<br />which should be required reading for every citizen in North America --<br />in fact, in the world. So what happened then, as far as I can tell, is<br />the French intellectuals, who were sort of at the forefront of the Marxist<br />movement, and also the most recalcitrant with regards to apologizing<br />for the excesses of Communism, performed an intellectual sleight-of-hand<br />and slapped Marxism with a postmodern facade to hide from those who<br />were justly criticizing it its transmutation, and it's progressed apace<br />through the universities ever since. And so, we see now the absolute<br />domination of the humanities and much of the social sciences by this<br />unholy alliance -- unholy and incoherent alliance -- between postmodernism,<br />which claims there are no reliable grand narratives, and neo-Marxism,<br />which is a grand narrative of exactly the kind the postmodernists object<br />to. So it's not even intellectually coherent. So now we have the domination<br />of the universities by what are essentially unrepentant Marxists producing<br />social activists of the type, for example, that were hired as VP of diversity<br />and human resources for Google. And they're the fifth column within these<br />capitalist organizations. The damn capitalists don't seem to have enough<br />sense to push back against the people who are really their mortal enemies.<br />It's a remarkable spectacle, actually.<br /><br />So, as far as I'm concerned, the universities need to be, um -- what would<br />you say? -- the state of the universities needs to be addressed and<br />repaired. And we have one tactic in mind for that, so I'm going to release<br />a Web site here in about two weeks that will enable students to upload<br />course descriptions, along with the professor's name, the discipline<br />and the university, and it's got an AI engine inside it, and it will tell<br />the student whether or not the course is postmodern neo-Marxist<br />indoctrination cult material. And then leave it up to the student whether<br />or not they want to take that course. And so what I'm hoping is that<br />the right way to address the pathological and powerful remnants of this<br />Marxist idiocy -- murderous idiocy -- is to stanch the flow of new minds<br />into their indoctrination camps, and I think the best way to do that is<br />through information. So I'm going to make a video detailing some of the<br />things we're talking about and introduce this Web site. So, you know, that's<br />one possible strategy for cleaning this mess up. . .<br />====<br /><br /><br />AI to the rescue! :-0jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com